Remote Council Meetings: Peer to peer support

If you are setting up a webchat, online discussion forum, webinar or you know about a discussion thread where people can join in and share good practice, problem solve and learn, please let us know and we can add this to the event listing below.

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e-learning and training materials

    LGA e-learning Module How to hold an online council meeting  

    LGA e-learning Module How to hold an online council meeting
    Click on ‘this platform’ and scroll to the end of the modules for ‘Online Council Meeting.'

    Zoom training video created by Northants CALC  

    This video was created by Northants CALC  to demonstrate what a virtual meeting of (the fictional) Great Pipping Parish Council would look like in Zoom. It is a training video designed to show how a chairman would deal with councillors joining by computer and phone, declarations of interest, public participation and confidential items where members of the public and press are excluded.

    Holding meetings: webinar by SLCC (Society of Local Council Clerks) 

    Discover how to use Go To Meeting, provided by the SLCC

     

    Examples of virtual council meetings

    Rutland County Council Cabinet Meeting | 21 April 2020

    Time: 10am
    Organiser: Rutland County Council
    Platform: Zoom
    More information: Rutland County Council Cabinet Meeting

    Scrutiny Officers Good Practice Sharing | 21 April 2020

    Time: 3.30pm
    Organiser: Dave McKenna Solutions
    Platform: Zoom
    More information: Scrutiny Offers Good Practice Sharing

    Harborough District Council Planning Meeting | 21 April 2020

    Time: 6.30pm
    Organiser: Harborough District Council
    Platform: Webinar
    More information: Harborough District Council Planning Meeting

    Hambleton District Council Meeting | 17 April 2020

    Time: 2pm
    Organiser: Hambleton District Council
    Platform: Conference call
    More information: Hambleton District Council Meeting

    Ealing Council Licensing Sub Committee

    Time: 1pm
    Organiser: Ealing Council
    Platform: Microsoft Teams Live
    More information: Ealing  Council Licensing Sub Committee

    Northamptonshire County Council Cabinet Meeting | 14 April 2020

    Time: 2pm
    Organiser: Northamptonshire County Council
    Platform: YouTube
    More information: Northamptonshire County Council Cabinet Meeting

    Planning Applications Committee | Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, 9 April 2020

    Time: 6.30pm
    Organiser: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
    Platform: Team
    More information: Planning Applications Committee

    Blaby District Council Meeting | 9 April 2020

    Time: 2pm
    Organiser: Blaby District Council
    More information: Blaby District Full Council Meeting

    Devon County Council Cabinet Meeting | 8 April 2020

    Time: 10.30am
    Organiser: Devon County Council
    More information: Devon County Council Cabinet Meeting

    Surrey Heath Borough Council Meeting | 8 April 2020

    Time: 7pm
    Organiser: Surrey Heath Borough Council
    Platform: Zoom and YouTube
    More information: Surrey Heath Borough Full Council Meeting

    Scrutiny officers good practice sharing, Public.Gov | 7 April 2020

    Time: 2-3pm
    Organiser: Public.Gov
    Platform: Zoom
    More information: Scrutiny officers good practice sharing 

    Licensing Team Hold Mock Committee Hearing, Kings Chamber | 7 April 2020

    Time: 11am
    Organiser: Kings Chamber 
    Platform: Zoom
    More information: Licensing Team Hold Mock Committee Hearing

    Southwark Council Cabinet Meeting | 7 April 2020

    Time: 4.30pm
    Organiser: Southwark Council
    More information: Southwark Council Cabinet Meeting

    Exeter City Council Cabinet Meeting | 7 April 2020

    Time: 5.30pm
    Organiser: Exeter City Council
    Platform: Skype and YouTube
    More information: Exeter City Council Cabinet Meeting

    Kirklees Council Cabinet Meeting  | 1 May 2020

    Kirklees Council Cabinet Meeting
    Organiser: Kirklees Council
    Platform: You Tube
    More information: Kirklees Council Cabinet Meeting

    Charnwood Borough Council  Plans Committee | 6 May 2020

    Organiser: Charnwood Borough Council
    Platform: Zoom and You Tube
    More information: Charnwood Borough Council

    Northumberland County Council Cabinet Meeting | 12 May 2020

    Organiser: Northumberland County Council
    Platform: You Tube
    More information: Northumberland County Council Cabinet Meeting

    Discussion webinars

    MHCLG digital webinar on continued functioning of local government

    9 April 2020: Digital webinar on ‘continued functioning of local government’ meeting notes
    Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG)

    • Public decision-making processes and enabling technologies
    • Understanding internal workforce availability and capacity

    support@localdigital.gov.uk for general enquiries
    events@localdigital.gov.uk for COVID-19 weekly call enquiries

    Making democracy digital in response to COVID-19

    This panel webinar will explore solutions from local authorities across the country to discuss how councils have embraced this new way of remote working and how they envisage local democracy working now it has been digitalised.

    Watch the video 'Making democracy digital in response to COVID-19' on YouTube

    Please send details of any events to Kathryn.trant@local.gov.uk. If you are holding a live event, please let us know if a recording or transcript will be available which we can feature here.  

    COVID-19: good council practice

    Councillor workbooks